Benton County Sheriff's Office issued the following announcement on Apr. 19.
Each spring, as Oregon is blessed with an abundance of ducklings, bear cubs, seal pups, and fawns, among other wild baby critters, Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODWF) phones begin to ring. Callers say they’ve found an abandoned duckling or fawn and want to know what to do with it.
ODFW biologists want to scream – LEAVE THEM ALONE!
Sadly, many wild critters end up losing any chance of survival when they’re removed from the wild, even if it’s only for a brief time.
And yet every spring it’s the same story as people continue to take young wildlife home under the often-mistaken idea that they were abandoned.
Black bear cubs are born between mid-January and early February and leave the winter den with mom in the spring. Cubs found alone should never be removed from the wild. Their best chance of survival and the best overall scenario is for them to remain in the wild.
Again, we ask you to please keep wildlife, wild.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Benton County Sheriff's Office
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